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Milestone: AAP reports ebooks are now the #1 book format

This is another one of those milestones worth noticing. The
Association of American Publishers (AAP - industry group of all major publishers) reports that ebooks are now the
top selling format among trade books. That is, more ebooks are sold than hardbacks, more than paperbacks, etc.

I certainly hope everyone's taking ebooks seriously at this point.
The indicators still point toward the next milestone to watch for: ebooks exceeding 50% of sales. In other words, ebooks overtaking print.
Considering that there's no sign of any slowing in the voracious upward
climb of ebooks, and as ereader prices keep dropping, my guess is that, give or take, we'll see that milestone next year.